Acabit Tecnologia Ltda. and Upscene Productions to join forces and increase InterBase and Firebird support in Brazil

[07-01-2003]
July 1, 2003 - The Netherlands - Brazil:
Upscene Productions, the well known developer of "Database Workbench", and Acabit Tecnologia Ltda, a Brazil based software reseller and developer, decided to join forces and increase InterBase and Firebird support in Brazil. Acabit will sell and provide Portuguese support for "Database Workbench" - the flagship product of Upscene Productions.

"By providing Brazil based customers a way to easily purchase foreign software and support in their own language, we think that InterBase and Firebird development and knowledge will increase in the Brazil area.", said Martijn Tonies, the main developer of Database Workbench. "We both want to increase sales in Brazil for database development software. Database Workbench should be a good start for this."


"We are eager to work with Upscene, since one of our main products uses Firebird. With "Database Workbench" we can offer a complete solution to our customers", said Eduardo Mauro, technical director at Acabit. "Firebird is a low cost solution that is being largely used in Brazil. "Database Workbench" will help Brazilian developers to produce better applications."

About "Database Workbench"
Database Workbench is an after-case tool to create, maintain and test your databases and applications. It has an easy-to-use, but very powerful, user interface to create, browse and delete database objects and includes a large number of tools created for filling, testing and profiling your database in order to test your database applications. With it's unique interface, features and tools, it speeds up your database development process and improves developer productivity. Database Workbench supports the following database engines: Borland InterBase ( www.interbase.com ) and Firebird ( www.firebirdsql.org ). More information and documentation about Database Workbench can be found at www.upscene.com

About Upscene Productions
Since two years, Upscene Productions is selling it's database tool (Database Workbench) to the public - and with great success. Database Workbench is one of the leading InterBase and Firebird development tools - hundreds of companies, including Motorola Denmark, Greenpeace, Oxford Brookes University, Vertex Software, the US Military and Borland itself. Upscene also actively sponsors the Firebird open source project and is one of the co-founders of the FirebirdSQL Foundation - a non profit organisation to sponsor and channel funds to the Firebird project.

About Acabit Tecnologia Ltda
Acabit, founded in 1991, is a software development and system integrator company, based in Brazil, with large experience in custom made solutions, including client-server applications, B2B portals and data acquisition. Among its customers are Azko-Nobel, Mahle, Siemens and Mercado Eletronico, which received several prizes for its B2B portal. One of Acabit main products is BitTracker, a collaborative web portal solution, which permits complete control over projects, issues, tasks and content. For more information, visit: www.acabit.com.br or www.bittracker.com.br.